Welcome to Cape Town! Table Mountain is special in that it sits on the southwest
corner of the vast African continent it has ocean on two sides and two
different currents past the Cape the cold current brings antartic water to
the west coast of Southern Africa and a warm current of the Indian Ocean travels
from the tropics bringing warm water to the East Coast we are going up the
famous cable call to Table Mountain this is known as the official new seventh
wonder of nature we're going up there apparently it's a little over 3,000 feet
the floors rotate by the way
the first cable car went up Table Mountain in 1929 and from the window you
can see Robben Island Oh the top of Table Mountain is flat and the thick
white mist that often drapes it is called tablecloth. Here we spot a rock
Dassie. Although it resembles a small rabbit the Daisy is actually most
closely related to the elephant their evolutionary relationship is based on
similarities in their teeth and feet they also have built-in sunglasses which
allows them to look directly into the Sun to help escape from hawks and eagles.
What do you think of this view? This is cool and it's literally cool.
This right here is Table Mountain, it's huge
Down below
we can see the beautiful beaches at camps bay. It was so windy that we had to
do this voice over and buy hats and sweaters at the gift shop at the top of
Table Mountain. This is the little cafe and shop and we have an internet cafe overlooking this view.
so those animals we saw dassies.
We're in a wind tunnel!
There's the Atlantic ocean and the Indian Ocean.
The Atlantic is very very cold. But the Indian is very warm.
The height above sea level the lower station is 363 meters and the top
station is 1607 meters
look at the city down below, you can see the stadium right there.
And then the city center.
Right there, and lion's head.
[Xhosa language]
Thank you very much for visiting Table Mountain
The original inhabitants of Cape Town the Khoisan and Sān they believed this
mountain to be sacred they believed their god Tsui'goab used to roam these mountains. The
Chinese believe that the Feng Shui of this very mountain has a certain zen about
it. Mandela from Robben island saw this mountain as a beacon of hope to him it
was representation of land which one day will return. Return he did. Your exit
will be the door. [Laughing] bye bye. This is the view from the base of the cable car now we're
heading down the mountain toward the luxurious beaches of camps bay
beautiful beach this 6 million Rand, private owned, look at that
Casablanca
Casa Blanca is another one for sale
so this is called Camp's Bay this is like millionaires row right here
the homes average in seven million dollars per home and look at these
bounces is called the twelve apostles for the twelve peaks and the water is
the Landtag super cold
so that's the Table Mountain we just went to the top turquoise what do you
think of this it's amazing I'm so happy I'm here the weather is perfect it's
springtime we have beautiful Southern California type weather here today it's
gorgeous
this is called maidens Beach it used to be a woman's only beach today anyone can
come here and it's absolutely gorgeous one of the best places to take this
photo of Table Mountain
it's really special to see this today in its full glory the first day we got in
it was covered in clouds we hope that you liked this video if you liked it hit
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